Small suffrutices usually about 60 cm, reaching a height of 130 cm, producing flowering shoots at ground level from the woody hard base; branches simple or branched from the base, older stems blackish, glabrous, young shoots very densely tomentose, tawny to ferruginous. Leaves alternate, petiolate; petioles up to 1.5 cm long; leaf-blade oval, ovate or obovate. subacute to rounded at the apex, 4-13 cm long by 3-6.5 cm broad, thick and fairly rigid, yellowish-green above, tawny to brownish below, densely tomentose below, tomentose to pubescent above and becoming glabrescent with age, base cordate, rounded or more or less truncate, nerves slightly prominent (young leaves)or impressed (mature leaves) above, prominent and reticulate below. Flowers dioecious, female or functionally male, solitary, axillary, pendulous, pentamerous, 1.2-1.5 cm long; peduncle 1-2.5 cm long; bracts borne on upper half of peduncle, lanceolate, acuminate, 5-6 mm long, hairy below, glabrescent above, subopposite. Calyx shaggy-tomentose on both surfaces, lobes ovate to lanceolate, 0.5-1 cm long, divided nearly to the base. Corolla very deeply lobed, partly pubescent outside, glabrous within, lobes oblong, obtuse, about 1.3 cm long, pubescent where not overlapping in bud, more or less reflexed. Stamens 10, 4.5 mm long, filaments short, broad, anthers lanceolate, hairy on the back, reduced to staminodes in female flowers. Ovary ovoid-conical, with 5 raised hairy vertical lines and intervening less hairy spaces, 10-celled, gradually passing into the ribbed style terminated by 5 branches; branches hairy below, glabrous at the apex. Fruit densely hispid with rather long yellowish bristly hairs, ribbed, about 2 cm long and 1-1.5 cm broad, much exceeded and enclosed by the accrescent calyx; calyx lobes ovate-acute up to 3.5 cm long, pubescent to sparsely pubescent, drying a dark reddish brown. Seeds 4-8, shiny brown, oblong, about 15 cm long, circumvented by a thin line.
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An erect shrub. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 40-130 cm high. It has several stems produced from an underground stem. The leaves are alternate and grey olive green. They are oval and 4-13 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. The leaves are thick and leathery. The flowers are white and bell shaped. They turn yellow with age. The flowers are creamy white and have a scent. They are 15 mm long and the petals turn back. The fruit are oval and 2 cm long. They have strong ribs. They are covered with yellow hairs.
Small shrub, 0.6-1.3 m high. Shoots unbranched, straight, rufous-pubescent. Leaves cordate or rounded at base, densely shaggy-pubescent to tomentose below. Flowers pentamerous, solitary, 9-15 mm long. Calyx deeply divided. Flowers white.
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